Signaling-Mediated Control of Cell Division

This volume covers the current knowledge base on the role of signaling and environmental pathways that control the normal development of germline stem cells, meiotic progression of oocytes, events of oocyte maturation and fertilization, and the birth of an embryo.

Germ cells are uniquely poised to sustain life across generations through the fusion of oocyte and sperm. Because of the central importa...